Bomb-Making Online: An Abridged Sketch of Federal Criminal Law


 

Publication Date: September 2003

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Research Area: Law and ethics; Media, telecommunications, and information

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Abstract:

Subsection 842(p) of title 18 of the United State Code outlaws teaching, demonstrating, or distributing information on how to make or use explosives, destructive devices, or weapons of mass destruction either when the offender intends the instruction or information to commit a federal crime of violence or when the offender knows that a person to whom the instruction or information has been given intends to use it to commit a federal crime of violence.